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In an SEC filing today, we learn that Other Machine Co., a startup focusing on fabrication, has collected $1.18 million of a proposed $3 million round.

San Francisco-based Other Machine Co. is all about desktop manufacturing. Like 3D printer companies, it wants to make innovation and invention in hardware something anyone can do in their spare time and space.

The company produces small computer numerical controlled (CNM) machines, starting with Othermill, a 15-pound, 10-inch cube that creates circuit boards, ice cube trays, etc. by cutting out small pieces of physical material one layer at a time. (So, it’s kind of the opposite of a 3D printer, which molds material according to a design — kind of like the difference between negative and positive space.

Danielle Applestone was using a DARPA grant to develop low-cost computer numerical control (CNC) machines for schools when the funding dried up. She didn't waver. Applestone simply took a CNC mill her engineering team had designed and launched a consumer products company.